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Re: Source-Depends? Autoreconf?



On Sat, 2 May 2009 13:24:07 +0100, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
wrote:
>I personally dislike the entire concept of "Debian-native" source packages.
>I would like it if all software in Debian had a split .orig/.diff.  Even
>for real "native" sources, it makes things like backporting, reuse by
>others, and minor fixes, NMUs etc. rather simpler to do, and you get a
>diff of the changes to boot, which makes reintegration of the changes
>less time consuming (just review and apply the diff).  Debian-native
>packages hinder collaboration and reuse by others.

Applause.

Greetings
Marc

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